ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,579, issued on April 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a flyback converter for charging a DC link capacitor" was invented by Daniel Zirkel (Wiernsheim-Serres, Germany), Gholamabas Esteghlal (Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, Germany), Markus Klein (Winnenden, Germany) and Thomas Kiewnick (Freiberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) of operating a flyback converter (250) to charge a DC link capacitor (210), with the steps of: determining (120) a voltage (Ux), characterizing the voltage at the DC link capacitor (210), specifying (140) a target charging current level (I_L) for cha...